Re: [boost] [Bug][Tools] Incomplete tool documentation, especially for building

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-14 11:23:28

> While answering a post about BCP on another list, I noticed that the
> docs for BCP (at <http://www.boost.org/tools/bcp/bcp.html>) never
> actually say where one would get BCP from!  Looking at my local
> archive, I see the BCP source files are in the same directory as the
> BCP doc file.  I noticed that they are C++ code; I suspected that BCP
> could have been a (Python) script or (if I didn't respond to a
> question asking why not) pre-made executables.  I feel that the BCP
> docs should explain how to get BCP.

Good point.  I'll update the docs so folks know how to build it.

We could probably ship a zip containing the binaries for all the tools 
rather than just bjam, but someone needs to step up and volunteer to build 
them, failing that their not hard to build from source.

John.